1.7.0 Released

We are proud to announce our first release for the 1.7 series of Xibo. The codename for this series is “Tuttle”.

It has taken us a little over 4 months to bring you the new features in this release – the highlights are:

• Clean, modern user interface
• Improved translatable manual
• Scheduling Calendar with Day, Week and Month Views
• Simplified Player Registration and Configuration
• Advanced Player Configuration managed from the CMS
• Screen Shot Request from the Player
• Media RSS support
• Twitter support
• Weather provided by Forecast IO
• Effects for Text based media
• New options for scaling web pages and embedded content
• Many bug fixes and improvements
• Settings for force HTTPS/STS
• Reporting for Client up / down events.
• Improved Sorting for all table data.
• “Select All” functions in key places.
• Tabs for the Settings page.
• Options for ticker media to not strip attributes.
• Options for ticker media to strip certain tags.
• Better database Export (works with larger databases when Apache Sendfile mode is enabled).
• Date formatting for Tickers.
• General Date formatting.
• Translated Calendar (JavaScript Translations).
• Remove Inactive users from the permissions list.
• Switched all HTML based media to HTML5 doctype.
• Option to scale embedded media.
• and much more.

The release notes are available in the manual and the download is available on Github.

We would like to take this opportunity to say a big Thank You to everyone involved in the Xibo Project Community. We couldn’t release Xibo without the help we get from people who reported bugs, submitted patches or donated money.

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